J. J. Hardy Quotes
I'm starting to swing the bat now like I know I can. You can't really explain it. I'm just seeing the ball good and everything is going my way.
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
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Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
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I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.
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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
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I'm not a sexy person. I'm OK with it. I've never been the sexy girl. Whenever I've had a boyfriend, he's always been like, 'Oh, you're cute.'
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My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.
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At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.
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It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew to love and as I found my listening audience also grew to love.
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I'm starting to swing the bat now like I know I can. You can't really explain it. I'm just seeing the ball good and everything is going my way.
